Special 914 model, made on a monday!!! Options

[dr914@autoatlanta.com]

very rare!!!! (we have seen these factory mistakes before):

[Root_Werks]

Okay, someone please explain this one to me. A VIN that starts with a 5 seems out of sorts, the rest I dunno what I'm looking at.

[dr914@autoatlanta.com]

that is it, all 914 four cylinder cars started 47 followed by the year made, this one is a factory misprint having a 5 as the prefix

Okay, someone please explain this one to me. A VIN that starts with a 5 seems out of sorts, the rest I dunno what I'm looking at.

[wonkipop]

that is it, all 914 four cylinder cars started 47 followed by the year made, this one is a factory misprint having a 5 as the prefix

Okay, someone please explain this one to me. A VIN that starts with a 5 seems out of sorts, the rest I dunno what I'm looking at.

yes
i believe the 47 stands for the model number.
ie in VW parlance a 914 is type 4 like a 411.
its no 7 type 4.

i had a list somewhere. the 914 is the last one. so is 47.
they run from 41 through to 47.
as doc says 4 (third number) means 74.
i forget what the two is.
although i do have a feeling that in the Vin like the VW production number (aka karmann number) that the 9 stands for the karmann factory. not 100% on that when it comes to the Vin.
the Vin is actually a standard conforming VW vin code that is similar for other VW models.
the first two digits define all the VW models of various types.
so usually for instance a beetle starts with 1.
the second number would denote exactly what variation of the beetle it is.
ie 11 or 12 r 13 etc.

i wonder if the 5 is a mistake due to the scirrocco.
i'd have to find an early scirrocco vin to see if that was so.
i think around about this time, end of jan/start of feb they were sending the first few early production scirroccos down the line at karmann to test production.
might have been a brain fade error induced by that moment.
i'm pretty sure those very early scirroccos were mixed in with 914s coming down the line.